Computational Research in Physics Department, University of Jember
The University of Jember.
The university of Jember is a relatively big university at end-east of Java Island, Indonesia. The university of Jember is 1 of the 32 universities of more than 1500 public universities in Indonesia, that have given “A” rank by government. We have more than 15 faculties. One of them is the faculty of mathematical and natural sciences where the physics department is located (my department). The physics department is relatively a new one. Founded 1997, now we have graduated about more than 400 undergraduate students. We have 5 research groups: (1) Computational Physics (2) Biophysics (3) Materials (4) Geophysics and (5) Instrumentation.
IDB (Islamic Development bank) Project.
The University of Jember has a vision to be center of excellent in the bio-science and bio-technology research, in Indonesia. Starting to 2017 we plan to build several big center Laboratories. One of them is the 6-floors building for Science Laboratory at Faculty of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, completed with equipment. For human staff development we will send about more than 40 researchers to get training or study at high class university in the world. So, that is why I am here, at ISIR Osaka University. This prestigious project is supported by IDB.
My current research.
I do material research using molecular dynamics method. I got my PhD from Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) the field of nuclear materials computation. In this research we try to find a proper mechanism to reduce the corrosion phenomena of steels when we operate the fast nuclear power plant based on the liquid metals as LBE coolant. We use the MOLDY molecular dynamics code and we can point from the simulation that if we can inject oxygen gas at proper concentration then the corrosion can be reduced dramatically. However, for developing material research we have constraint on the correct form of potential energy function. This may be solved by DFT calculation. I will talk about this in colloquium in general (as in reference below).
My future research.
As I was sent by IDB program, I want to learn about DFT and its application for material computation. This will have a benefit to my physics department to support material research both theoretical and experimental research. Computational research group in physics department supported by Dell Power egde R720 server with 40 cores.
International Collaboration.
It is supported by our university to make some international collaboration. There is MOU between Osaka University and Jember University as a trigger. From our government, we can submit research proposal for international collaboration. I hope it can be realized during my visit to write a draft of international collaboration research proposal between Prof Tamio Oguchi Lab and my group of computational physics. This will give my financial support to visit Osaka University again in the future.
Reference
Inhibition of iron corrosion in high temperature stagnant liquid lead: A molecular dynamics study,
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